Recently Foraged Ingredients: Vol. 15

Spring ingredients are in full swing right now. Chefs are always looking forward to the springtime when they can use these exciting ingredients to liven up their menus and say goodbye to winter. Most of these springtime ingredients work well in salads, risottos, pastas, and ragoûts. These items pair nicely with spring protein such as Rabbit, Lamb, Halibut, and King Salmon. For this edition of Recently Foraged Ingredients we have listed some of the fun things that you can find around this time of year as well as our list of unusual and hard to find items.

Here are the items we have found recently from farmers, farmers markets and specialty vendors in Northern California.

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Spring Ingredient Check-Off List

• Asparagus
• English Peas
• Fava Beans
• Fava Greens
• Pea Tendrils
• Nettles
• Fiddlehead Ferns
• Fennel Flower
• Morel Mushrooms
• Spring Onions
• Green Garlic
• Meyer Lemon
• Ramps
• Strawberries
• Rhubarb

Fresh Vegetables

• Onion Scrapes
• Wild Onions
• Apple Mint
• Comfrey
• Sage Blossoms

Greens

• Miners Lettuce
• Red Miners Lettuce
• Pepper Cress

Fruit

• Longan
• Kiku Apple

Misc.

• Verjus